Category Archives: Canadian Press
Canadian skier Erik Guay to miss the Winter Olympics due to back pain
World champion skier Erik Guay’s dream of an Olympic medal is over. The Montreal native, one of Canada’s top medal hopes in alpine skiing, announced Wednesday that he will miss the Winter ...
Jan 31, 2018
AP source: Fox gets Thursday night football for 5 years, $3B
BLOOMINGTON, Minn. - Fox and the NFL have agreed to a five-year deal for Thursday night football games. Those games previously were televised by CBS and NBC, two of the league’s other network pa...
Jan 31, 2018
Alleged bank robbers arrested after stopping at Tim Hortons in New Brunswick
RICHIBUCTO, N.B. - A pair of alleged New Brunswick bank robbers were arrested as they stopped at Tim Hortons after the heist. RCMP say the Royal Bank of Canada on Main Street in Richibucto was robbed ...
Jan 31, 2018
CAS to announce Russian Olympic doping verdicts on Thursday
LAUSANNE, Switzerland - Russian athletes disqualified from the Olympics for life in the Sochi doping scandal will have their appeal verdicts announced on Thursday. The Court of Arbitration for Sport s...
Jan 31, 2018
Putin to athletes: Ignore doping scandals at Olympics
MOSCOW - Russian President Vladimir Putin has told the country’s athletes to forget about doping scandals when they compete at the Pyeongchang Olympics. As punishment for what it deemed a doping...
Jan 31, 2018
Jaromir Jagr signs contract with his Czech hometown club
PRAGUE, Czech Republic - NHL great Jaromir Jagr signed a deal Wednesday with a team he owns in the Czech Republic. The move comes a couple days after the Calgary Flames placed the forward on unconditi...
Jan 31, 2018
Markets Right Now: After a stumble, stocks end a bit higher
NEW YORK - The latest on developments in financial markets (All times local): 4 p.m. Stock indexes ended slightly higher on Wall Street after overcoming a brief stumble in the afternoon. The dip Wedne...
Jan 31, 2018
AP FACT CHECK: Trump's claims in his State of Union address
WASHINGTON - The AP is fact-checking remarks from President Donald Trump’s State of the Union speech. Here’s a look at some of the claims we’ve examined (quotations from the speech a...
Jan 31, 2018
Analysis: Trump speech puts emotion ahead of problem-solving
WASHINGTON - In vivid detail, President Donald Trump told stories of American heroism, heartbreak and tragedy in his emotionally charged first State of the Union. What he didn’t detail were solu...
Jan 31, 2018
Trump's clapping draws amusement, derision on social media
WASHINGTON - President Donald Trump’s repeated clapping throughout his first State of the Union drew reactions from amusement to derision on social media. Trump’s applause during Tuesday n...
Jan 31, 2018